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Trustees ask for BOCES line‑by‑line accounting as district shifts services and staffing
Summary
Board sought a full breakdown of BOCES expenditures and aidable percentages after district moved many IT and service lines to BOCES; trustees also requested FTE and RTI counts where TA and special‑education staffing rose notably in some elementary schools.
Multiple trustees asked administrators to provide a detailed accounting of the district’s BOCES spending and the net savings or costs from shifting services into the consortium model. Assistant Silva said the administration will provide a line‑by‑line breakdown — including what was moved into BOCES, what is newly aidable, and the estimated net savings — before the next board meeting.
Trustees also pressed for precise FTE counts and rationale for large apparent increases in classroom assistants and RTI staff at specific elementary buildings (for example, Kent Elementary and Matthew Patterson). Silva said some positions were reclassified from special education to general education (dual‑language and RTI roles) and that retirements and replacements create net savings overall, but that the board would receive the exact FTE and student count data to satisfy the request.
Board members asked the administration to include the amount of aid recovered by the BOCES moves in any summary so that the public can see the net fiscal effect of migrating services to the consortium.
